Oscar IsaacQuotes

Bassam: Hey, hey. Listen to me. I am not getting my head cut off on the Internet. If something happens, shoot me. Will you shoot me?

Ferris: Fuck that shit. I will shoot you right now.

Mikael Boghosian: My darling Yeva told me that her greatest wish was that her parents and our dear Ana were here. I told her I know that they *are*. For sure, they are here. And all of your parents and all those families lost in an attempt to wipe our nation from the face of the earth. But we're still here. We're still here.

Mikael Boghosian: [narrating; [w:Spanish Civil War|Spanish Civil War; [w:Watertown, Massachusetts|Watertown, Massachusetts; [Japanese; [w:Pearl harbour|Pearl harbor] There was nothing that could be said. Both of us had lost the woman we loved. The French took us to a refugee camp in Egypt. Chris arranged for US visas for me, Yeva, and the orphans. We lost Chris in 1938. He died while reporting on the ]. I adopted yeva, finished my medical studies and set up a practice in ]. After the ] attacked ], Yeva joined the women's army corps and fell in love with a young marine lieutenant. And on her wedding day, the orphans joined us in celebration.

Mikael Boghosian: [[home; [write] How wonderful it must be to go back to the comfort of your American ] and ] about it.

Adolph Eichmann: [[Madagascar (country)|Madagascar] You know I tried to help. For years, I got your people out of the country. That was "my" solution. I wanted the Jews sent to ].

Peter Malkin: Yes, dying of malaria is nicer than poisoned gas. Very thoughtful of you.

Peter Malkin: He's a monster, but he's just a man.

Peter Malkin: We are here to judge you. We are here to give you justice.

Peter Malkin: [to Eichmann] You think you're a ghost, but you're not.

Caleb: What was the real test?

Nathan: You. Ava was a rat in a maze. And I gave her one way out. To escape, she'd have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy, and she did. Now, if that isn't true AI, what the fuck is?

Nathan: [[w:Turing test|Turing tests] C'mon buddy. After a long day of ] you gotta unwind.

Caleb: What were you doing with Ava?

Nathan: What?

Caleb: You tore up her picture.

Nathan: [begins to disco dance with Kyoko] I'm gonna tear up the fucking dance floor, dude. Check it out.

Caleb: Can we talk about the lies you've been spinning me?

Nathan: What lies?

Caleb: I didn't win a competition. I wasn't part of a lottery. I was selected. It's obvious, once I stop to think. Why would you randomly select an examiner for the Turing test? You could have had some bean counter turn up at your front door. The guy who fixes the air-conditioning.

Nathan: The competition was a smokescreen. I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing here, or why I required you.

Caleb: Why me?

Nathan: I needed someone that would ask the right questions. So I did a search and I found the most talented coder in my company. You know, instead of seeing this as a deception, you should see it as proof.

Caleb: Proof of what?

Nathan: Come on, Caleb. You don't think I don't know what it's like to be smart? Smarter than everyone else. Jockeying for position. You got the light on you, man. Not lucky. Chosen.

Caleb: I'm still trying to figure the examination formats. Yeah, it feels like testing Ava through conversation is kind of a closed loop.

Nathan: It's a closed loop?

Caleb: Yeah. Like testing a chess computer by only playing chess.

Nathan: How else do you test a chess computer?

Caleb: Well, it depends. You know, I mean, you can play it to find out if it makes good moves, but... but that won't tell you if it knows that it's playing chess. And it won't tell you if it knows what chess is.

Nathan: Uh huh. So it's simulation versus actual.

Caleb: Yes, yeah. And I think being able to differentiate between the two is the Turing Test you want me to perform.

Nathan: Look, do me a favor. Lay off the textbook approach. I just want simple answers to simple questions. Yesterday I asked you how you felt about her and you gave me a great answer. Now the question is, "How does she feel about you?

Nathan: You know this guy, right?

Caleb: [[Jackson Pollock] ].

Nathan: [[Star Trek] Jackson Pollock. That's right. The drip painter. Okay. He let his mind go blank, and his hand go where it wanted. Not deliberate, not random. Some place in between. They called it automatic art. Let's make this like ], okay? Engage intellect.

Caleb: Excuse me?

Nathan: [[w:James T. Kirk|Kirk] I'm ]. Your head's the warp drive. Engage intellect. What if Pollock had reversed the challenge. What if instead of making art without thinking, he said, "You know what? I can't paint anything, unless I know exactly why I'm doing it." What would have happened?

Caleb: He never would have made a single mark.

Nathan: Yes! You see, there's my guy, there's my buddy, who thinks before he opens his mouth. He never would have made a single mark. The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love... And for the record, Ava's not pretending to like you. And her flirting isn't an algorithm to fake you out. You're the first man she's met that isn't me. And I'm like her dad, right? Can you blame her for getting a crush on you?

Caleb: Did you program her to flirt with me?

Nathan: If I did, would that be cheating?

Caleb: Wouldn't it?

Nathan: Caleb, what's your type?

Caleb: Of girl?

Nathan: No, salad dressing. Yeah, of girl; what's your type of girl? You know what, don't even answer that. Let's say its black chicks. Okay, that's your thing. For the sake of argument, that's your thing, okay? Why is that your thing? Because you did a detailed analysis of all racial types and you cross-referenced that analysis with a points-based system? No! You're just attracted to black chicks. A consequence of accumulated external stimuli that you probably didn't even register as they registered with you.

Caleb: Did you program her to like me, or not?

Nathan: I programmed her to be heterosexual, just like you were programmed to be heterosexual.

Caleb: Nobody programmed me to be straight.

Nathan: You decided to be straight? Please! Of course you were programmed, by nature or nurture or both and to be honest, Caleb, you're starting to annoy me now because this is your insecurity talking, this is not your intellect.

Caleb: There was one interesting thing that happened today.

Nathan: Yeah?

Caleb: Yeah. She made a joke.

Nathan: Right. When she threw your line back at you. About being interested to see what she'd choose. Right, I noticed that, too.

Caleb: Yeah, that got me thinking, you know. In a way, that's the best indication of AI that I've seen in her so far. It's discretely complicated. It's like... it's kind of non-autistic.

Nathan: What do you mean?

Caleb: She could only do that with an awareness of her own mind... and also an awareness of mine.

Nathan: Oh, she's aware of you, all right.

Caleb: Her language abilities... they're incredible. The system is stochastic. Right? It's non-deterministic? At first I thought she was mapping from internal semantic form to syntactic tree-structured and then getting linearised words. But then I started to realise the model was some kind of hybrid.

Nathan: Caleb.

Caleb: No?

Nathan: I understand that you want me to explain how Ava works, but I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be able to do that.

Caleb: Try me. I'm hot on high-level abstraction.

Nathan: It's not cause I think you're too dumb. It's cause I want to have a beer and a conversation with you, not a seminar.

Caleb: [laughs nervously] Sorry.

Caleb: It's just in the Turing test, the machine should be hidden from the examiner.

Nathan: No, no. We're way past that. If I hid Ava from you so you could just hear her voice, she would pass for human. The real test is to show you that she's a robot and then see if you still feel she has consciousness.

Caleb: Yeah, I think you're probably right.

Nathan: [[w:Turing test|Turing test] So, do you know what the ] is?

Caleb: Yeah. I know what the Turing test is. It's when a human interacts with a computer and if the human doesn't know they're interacting with a computer, the test is passed.

Nathan: And what does a pass tell us?

Caleb: [astounded] That the computer has artificial intelligence. Are you building an AI?

Nathan: [pause] I've already built one. Over the next few days you're going to be the human component in a Turing test.

Caleb: Holy shit!

Nathan: Yeah, that's right, Caleb. You got it. Because if the test is passed, you are dead center of the greatest scientific event in the history of man.

Caleb: If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods.

Nathan: Caleb, I'm just going to throw this out there so it's said, okay? You're freaked out.

Caleb: I am?

Nathan: Yeah. You're freaked out, by the helicopter, and the mountains and the house, because it's all so super-cool. And you're freaked out by me, to be meeting me, having this conversation in this room, at this moment. Right? And I get that. I get the moment you're having, but... Dude, can we just get past that? Can we just be two guys? Nathan and Caleb? Not the whole "employer-employee" thing?

Caleb: Yeah, okay.

Nathan: Yeah?

Caleb: Yes, uh... yeah. It's good to meet you, Nathan.

Nathan: It's good to meet you too, Caleb.

Nathan: [after being stabbed] Okay. Fucking unreal. Okay. Ava...

Nathan: It's funny. You know. No matter how rich you get, shit goes wrong. You can't insulate yourself from it. I used to think it was death and taxes you couldn't avoid, but it's actually death and shit.

Nathan: [about Ava's brain] Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

Nathan: One day the AI's are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.

Standard: Do you want to hear how mommy and me met?

Standard: Yeah? Okay. We were at a party. And she was nineteen years old.

Irene: Seventeen.

Standard: You weren't seventeen.

Irene: I was.

Standard: [Laughs] Wow. So it was illegal. All right. So I illegally walked over to a seventeen year old girl. And I walk up and I say, "Hello, Miss. What is your name?" And she didn't say anything. And then I said, "Well my name is Standard Gabriel." Then what did you say?

Irene: I said, "Where's the deluxe version?

Llewyn Davis: [[bullshit] The show's ]. Four Micks and Grandma Moses.

Llewyn Davis: If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it's a folk song.

Prince John: (To his mother about his brother, Richard the Lionheart) Mother, your sainted son was an imbecile. And you have supported his every folly from here to Jerusalem and back! Yes, you...worshipped him, while the warrior lost territories, hard-won by his father. You kissed his picture while England had to pay four-years revenue to ransom him when he was captured! You are so much to blame as everyone for the wreckage which is my inheritance!

En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse: [having manipulated the launch of all nuclear weapons out into orbit] Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines... You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel... BUT YOU CAN NEVER... STRIKE... GOD!!!!!

En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse: [to Magneto] You will reach down, my son, deep into the earth. Rip everything they've built from the ground. Wipe clean this world, and we will lead those that survive into a better one.

En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse: Elohim, Pushan, Ra – I've been called many names over many lifetimes. I am born of death. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, I was there to set it ablaze.

Thufir Hawat: Sire, I failed you today. There's no excuse. You have my resignation.

Duke Leto Atreides: You would deprive us of your talents at this time?

Thufir Hawat: Sire, my honor demands...

Duke Leto Atreides: They tried to take the life of my son! I don't give a damn about your honor. You want absolution? Go catch some spies.

Duke Leto Atreides: What do they say about this hellhole again?

Gurney Halleck: To shower, you scrub your ass with sand," my lord. That's what they say.

Paul Atreides: What if I'm not, Dad?

Duke Leto Atreides: Not what?

Paul Atreides: The future of House Atreides.

Duke Leto Atreides: [shows Paul his signet ring] I told my father I didn't want this either. I wanted to be a pilot.

Paul Atreides: You never told me that.

Duke Leto Atreides: Your grandfather said, "A great man doesn't seek to lead. He's called to it, and he answers." And if your answer is no, you'll still be the only thing I ever needed you to be. My son.

Herald of the Change: By the grace of Shaddam IV of House Corrino, ascendant to the Golden Lion Throne of Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe, I stand before you as Herald of the Change. We are witnessed by members of the Imperial Court, representatives of the Spacing Guild and a sister of the Bene Gesserit. The Emperor has spoken. "House Atreides shall immediately take control of Arrakis and serve as its steward." Do you accept?

Duke Leto Atreides: We are House Atreides. There is no call we do not answer. There is no faith that we betray. The Emperor asks us to bring peace to Arrakis. House Atreides accepts!

Duke Leto Atreides: A great man doesn't seek to lead, he's called to it. And he answers. But if your answer is “no,” you’d still be the only thing I ever needed you to be – my son.

Duke Leto Atreides: [Final words] Here I am. Here I remain.